1 Contents Introduction: An Imaginary Symposium 1 Archaeology of a Vision 1.1 American Dreamers 1.2 The Original Vision 1.3 The Way Things Are 1.3.1 A Tale of Two Museums 1.4 Geoscope 1.5 Synergy & Entropy 2 Refractions 2.1 Dwelling Machine 2.1.1 Boxed in 2.2 Ambivalent Centennial 3 Reflections 3.1 Anima Mundi 3.1.1 Angels & Angles 3.2 Mandala 3.2.1 Deep South 3.2.2 Due East 3.2.3 True North 3.2.4 Way Out West 3.2.5 The Dream of the Dome 3.3 Connections—eal and Unreal 3.3.1 A Lower Deep A Unfolding WHOLES: A Synergetics Primer A.1 The WHOLE Story A.2 SOMEWHOLESOMEWHOLES A.3 Synergetics Primer A.3.1 Triangle A.3.2 Tetrahedron A.3.3 Vector Equilibrium A.4 Icosa A.4.1 Corroborations A.4.2 Unfolding the Icosa A.5 Rhombic Dodecahedron A.5.1 Unfolding the Rhombic Dodecahedron A.6 Spherical Tet and Octa A.6.1 Unfolding the Spherical Octahedron A.7 Frequency—2-Great Circle Vector Equilibrium A.7.1 Time as Growth A.7.2 Frequency as Time A.7.3 Frequency Shell Growth A.7.4 Unfolding the Frequency Vector Equilibrium A.7.5 Dwelling Valve—0-Great-Circle Icosahedron & Buckyballs A.7.6 Unfolding the Frequency Icosa A.8 Eye of the Beholder—hombic Triacontahedron A.8.1 Unfolding the Rhombic Triacontahedron A.8.2 Unfolding WHOLES: Practicum The Medium is not the WHOLE Message B The Root DHR and its Branches C Palimpsest List of Figures List of Tables Acronyms Bibliography 2